I’m trying to record my band using a focus rite scarlet 18i20 - this has 8 inputs
in an effort to give the drummer his ridiculous number of mics I though I could push my guitar through the spdif - thus maintaining a nice stereo image and saving 2 channels.
However there seems a big difference in sound using spdif versus panned analogue. The gain seems less and overall the sound more “brittle” and less “musical”
is there some black magic setting I might be missing - I’m completely new to spdif output - running on 48k locked - kemper in charge (other settings seemed to have pop and random farts)
is 96 k Better quality / wider ?
what might I be doing wrong
I even read the manual a bit
appreciate any help